Exploring the Relationship Between Social Capital and Individuals' Policy Preferences for Environmental Protection: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis

Jin, Myung H.; Shriar, Avrum J.

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2013.769415

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“…The key explanatory variables in our model relate to elements of social capital, and the literature heavily influenced their selection on different questions used to measure the various components (Narayan and Cassidy 2001;Macias and Williams 2014;Jin and Shriar 2013;Jones et al 2009Jones et al , 2010Polyzou et al 2011;Halkos and Jones 2012). These questions are then used to construct a composite social capital index of social trust, institutional trust, civic participation and an overall composite index of social capital using PCA.…”

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Is willingness to contribute for environmental protection in Sweden affected by social capital?

Marbuah

2019

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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This paper investigates the role of social capital in influencing individuals' willingness to contribute to environmental protection in Sweden. Four indices of social capital comprising social trust, institutional trust, civic participation and a composite index comprising all considered elements of social capital were constructed to analyse their respective association with individual decisions to contribute. Using data from the environment module of the 2010 International Social Survey Programme, we empirically show that all four social capital parameters are significant and robust drivers of Swedish public's willingness to contribute when the payment vehicles are increased higher prices or taxes or through lifestyle changes to protect the environment. Statistically, a significant association was observed for social trust and civic participation. Institutional trust is not significant when the payment vehicle is a reduction in the standard of living. Overall, however, the composite index of social capital is a robust predictor of likelihood to contribute irrespective of the payment vehicle.

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Is willingness to contribute for environmental protection in Sweden affected by social capital?

Marbuah

2019

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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“…Both forms of participation in social networks (i.e. at the individual and group level) influence an individual's tendency to engage in collective activities to preserve the environment, hence increase their WTP (Gelissen, 2007;Jin & Shriar, 2013).…”

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Household Willingness to Pay for Landslide Hazard Mitigation in Purworejo, Indonesia

Saptutyningsih¹,

Diswandi²,

Aziizah³

2019

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (Ico

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Landslide hazard could have severe impacts on public properties including damaged infrastructure, changing land structure, relocation of buildings and roadways, reduction on water quality in streams and irrigation facilities, etc., Household mitigation for landslide hazard is necessary to reduce such hazard intensity and minimize the impacts. This paper has analyzed household's willingness to pay (WTP) for landslide hazard mitigation in a high potential risk for landslide hazard regency in Purworejo, Central Java Indonesia. Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was employed to capture the household's WTP. Determinants of the household WTP were estimated using the Logistic regression model. 270 households were chosen using a purposive sampling technique as the respondents of this study. Results showed that 76.7 percent of respondents were willing to pay for an average of IDR 4,500 (USD 0.32) for landslide mitigation. Household income, distance to landslide location, frequency of landslide, and educational attainment have significant effects on the WTP. The paper recommends that the local government should pay more attention to the landslide hazard mitigation programs.

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“…However, as the benefits are expected to balance the costs in terms of health and sustainable living, many people choose to buy these products regardless of the expense. Paying higher prices or higher taxes have been used as an indicator of the degree of public support for environmental policies since accepting a policy must be linked to the willingness to finance it (Gelissen, 2007; Jin & Shriar, 2013; Stern et al, 1999). As such, it is important that governments and policy makers know how willing people are to pay before implementing strategies aimed at proposing alternative culture and lifestyle models and at encouraging individuals to engage in pro-environmental actions (Punzo et al, 2019).…”

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Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: The Effects of Pro-Environmental Behavior, Perceived Behavior Control, Environmental Activism, and Educational Level

2021

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Environmental quality is one of the major concerns in contemporary societies. The main goal of this research is to investigate citizens’ willingness to pay for environmental quality and whether this propensity differs in line with education level. Structural equation modeling is used to explore the associations between several constructs; specifically, a multigroup analysis is conducted to assess the invariance of two educational level segments. Results suggest that willingness to pay more for environmental quality is positively associated with perceived behavior control and environmental activism. Pro-environmental behavior does not impact willingness to pay for environmental quality but is positively related to perceived behavior control and environmental activism. The relationships between constructs hold true for both groups of education. Implications for public policy and marketing actions are addressed.

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Exploring the Relationship Between Social Capital and Individuals' Policy Preferences for Environmental Protection: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 57 publications

Is willingness to contribute for environmental protection in Sweden affected by social capital?

Is willingness to contribute for environmental protection in Sweden affected by social capital?

Household Willingness to Pay for Landslide Hazard Mitigation in Purworejo, Indonesia

Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: The Effects of Pro-Environmental Behavior, Perceived Behavior Control, Environmental Activism, and Educational Level

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